check the control panel\users settings then click on the user that is logged on and you just go to the properties of that user and there should be a display logon welcome screen or use classic mode.

im now forced to use classic mode for everything (which brought back the ctlr alt del options box, instead of straight to task list) since when i added a few new users, the Administrator account promptly disapeared. since one of the other accts i had made had admin axs, i used that to disable the graphical login, and it logs in fine if i type in the Administrator and password, just doesnt show on the GUI. weird. I hope in teh final you get options of using some elements from the new i/f and some from the old. would be nice to keep teh gui login and shutdown, but also have teh ctrl alt del options box

my questions is "what's the purpose of the ctrl alt del?"
 
I mean, if you have to type in a password to log in anyways, what's having that 3 key thing going to do? either way, users are not going to get in without a password.

Hey THC THANKS! Unfortunately I had to take the machine out of the domain and set it up as workgroup to get the gui. I finally got to witness the pretty shut down screen. It was gone once I put it back in the domain. Bummer.
 
JL, the ctrl-alt-del is supposed to protect you from false logon prompts that are used to steal passwords, if I understood Microsoft correctly. I guess that ctl-alt-del screen is next to impossible to fake therefore having it enabled makes sure you get the authentic logon prompt.
 
Any MCSE's care to help us on that last point?

that makes sense